“Emotions bleed where love frowns and despair smiles
My home is within the core
The center of this place, it lays down my heart for love
My love's (in) the Center of War”
“During that decade when many men's faces found a permanent hardness and bleakness, as if they looked upon an abyss, William Stoner, to whom that expression was as familiar as the air he walked in, saw the signs of a general despair he had known since he was a boy.”
Source: Stoner
“Cine şi-a văzut figura în ipostaza grotescă nu se va putea uita niciodată, fiindcă se va teme totdeauna de el însuşi. Disperarea este urmată de o nelinişte extrem de chinuitoare. Şi ce face acest grotesc altceva decît să actualizeze şi să intensifice teama şi neliniştea?”
Source: On the Heights of Despair
“What doesn’t polite society, in all seriousness, want to discuss? Sex, money, political corruption, bodily functions, religion, loss and despair?
These have been the very subjects attracting writers of comedy since Aristophanes penned “Lysistrata” as a vehicle for the young Joan Rivers.”
“Here's this: when I was sad, when I had real, legitimate reasons for grief or despair or anger or any emotion that was perceived as negative or dark, I had nowhere to go. I didn't know how to feel my feelings. And by refusing to name or acknowledge them, sometimes the darkness simply grew.”
Source: Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
“Silence was akin to prayer for me for a long time. I simply moved through life with silence in my spirit, waiting on God. I couldn't pray, but the part of me that had once prayed was waiting. Simply waiting.”
Source: Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
“Maybe hope has to engage despair and re-narrate it.”
Source: Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community
“To remember rape is to fold details into sensation, and so relive each time its terrible truth.
He told you this could become habit, an addiction, until even despair became a welcome taste on your tongue.
Understand, then - as only you can here - that to take one's own life is the final expression of despair.
You saw that. Buruk the Pale. You felt that, at the sea's edge.”
Source: Reaper's Gale
“I don’t want to hear how much Faith you have; I want to see you get out on the battlefield of life and prove how much Faith you have!”
Source: Faith Secrets: Learn How to Please God With Your Faith
“Whether in the valley of despair, the mountain peak of victory, or somewhere in-between, we are called to maintain a constant, stable connection to God Almighty.”
Source: Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity